Nida Sinnokrot

Nida Sinnokrot

Award-winning filmmaker and installation artist Nida Sinnokrot's unique style is very much informed by his past. Sinnokrot was part of the Whitney Independent Studio Program, the Made in Palestine exhibit and a number of group shows in the US and abroad. In 2002, he was awarded a Rockefeller Media Fellowship with which he went to Palestine to make a Horizontal Loop installation. 

Elia Suleiman

Elia Suleiman

Born in 1960 in Nazareth, Elia Suleiman lived in New York from 1981 to 1993. While in the United States, he has directed his first two short films: Introduction to the End of an Argument and Hommage by Assassination, winning numerous awards.

Ghada Terawi

Ghada Terawi

Ghada Terawi was born in Beirut in 1972 to a couple of Palestinian refugees originally from Al Tireh near Jaffa. She lived in Beirut till the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Moved with her family to many countries, Syria, Cyprus, Egypt, to settle down in Tunisia for few years. Studied in the American University in Cairo where she got her BA degree in Political Science.

Nasri Zacharia

Nasri Zacharia

Nasri Zacharia is a co-founder of, and the Director of Programming for, the Harlem International Film Festival. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of California at Davis, and earned his MFA in directing and cinematography from New York University’s Graduate Film School.